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Recent Examples of forthwith Substitute any other nation and she’d be canceled forthwith. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025 The first wave of airborne attacks will be launched forthwith. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025 Whichever designer first slid that paint job across a boardroom table should be banished forthwith to work on the Sonigenic SHS-series Yamaha Keytar, where there's no chance this dangerously inept individual could make the product look any worse. New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024 Accordingly, the Special Master and cartographer are DIRECTED to commence work forthwith on a remedial map. Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 5 Sep. 2023 Garland, Weiss, Wolf, and everyone connected to this growing scandal owe the nation answers, forthwith. The Editors, National Review, 23 June 2023 It is therefore ordered that the Arizona Department of Corrections, Reentry and Rehabilitation release (him) forthwith. Elena Santa Cruz, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023 DeSantis, a potential presidential candidate who studied history at Yale, characterizes American universities as liberal indoctrination centers ruled by faculty whose political correctness needs to be canceled, forthwith. Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023 On September 21st the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, declared that the model of railway privatisation that Britain has followed for the past two and a half decades had stopped working, and would end forthwith. The Economist, 26 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forthwith
Adverb
  • This employee was immediately put on administrative leave, and an investigation has begun.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Yet these productions are increasingly designed around an ethos of visual-over-depth that compels us to immediately document and post each scene.
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The latest such example occurred in the first inning of the Mets’ 5-4 win over the Reds on Friday when Soto stole third base and then promptly scored on a sacrifice fly.
    Will Sammon, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • McFarland, who co-founded the event with rapper Ja Rule, was promptly sued by investors and attendees in a $100 million class-action lawsuit.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Smith’s extended lunge was needed as Chapman’s throw barely beat Pages’ speed, but Smith instantly collapsed onto his side.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The two instantly had a connection.
    Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Additionally, 100% of the giant Colorado River basin is now in a drought.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • End 3rd Quarter Scott Starzyk's 49-yard field goal attempt off the left hash went wide left with 22 seconds left in the third quarter and the Razorbacks are in trouble now.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Sep. 2025

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“Forthwith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forthwith. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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